Police investigating 9 robberies, attempts in 24-hour span

Minneapolis police detectives are looking for suspects in nine robberies or attempts that were carried out across the city in a 24-hour period on Sunday and Monday, officials said.

John Elder, a police spokesman, said today that “there is no pattern as suspect description varies and the demography of the victims varies,” in the incidents, which occurred between Sunday night and about 9:20 p.m. on Monday. As of Tuesday morning, one arrest had been made, Elder said.

In the most recent incident, a 37-year-old man was walking alone in the area of Golden Valley Road and Logan Avenue North, near North Commons Park, when he was confronted by a group of teenagers, who took his cash, according to an incident report. The victim injured his wrist in the incident, but refused medical treatment, police said.

The victim could not provide a description of the assailants, according to the report.

Nov. 1 at 9:20 p.m.: Officers responded at about 9:20 p.m. to a robbery report in the 300 block of 19th Avenue, but later determined that nothing had been taken in the incident.

Nov. 1 at 9:45 p.m.: Two 15-year-old boys were robbed at gunpoint near the intersection of Golden Valley Road and Penn Avenue N., in north Minneapolis' Willard-Hay neighborhood.

Nov. 2 at 12:27 a.m. a teenage girl was robbed by a gun-wielding juvenile male at the corner of Golden Valley Road and Thomas Avenue N.. The suspect was later arrested and booked in Hennepin County Jail on a charge of aggravated robbery.

Nov. 2 at 6:18 a.m.: A 21-year-old man told police he was carjacked at gunpoint by two men near the intersection of 12th Avenue N. and Oliver Avenue N.

Nov. 2 at 11:04 a.m., a 39-year-old woman was walking from behind an apartment building in the 1800 block of 14th Avenue S. when two suspects grabbed her phone from her hand and fled. The incident was captured on surveillance video.

Nov. 2 at 11:08 a.m.: A suspect who claimed to have a gun robbed a 54-year-old man of his wallet near the intersection of 5th Street S. and Hennepin Avenue S.

Nov. 2 at 6:36 p.m.: Two suspects — wearing hoodies, sunglasses and gloves — held up a pharmacy in the 1500 block of New Brighton Boulevard at gunpoint. The suspects took two bottles of codeine cough syrup and fled on foot, heading west through an adjoining parking lot.

Nov. 2 at 7:20 p.m.: Two men and a woman accosted a 26-year-old Brooklyn Park man in downtown Minneapolis, in the area of 6th Street S. and Nicollet Mall. During a struggle, the assailants struck the man in the head with an unidentified object, and took his wallet and cell phone. The man suffered a cut above his right eye and was taken to an area hospital.